Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 45768, Phinehas Douglass, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Douglass, Phinehas
S 45768
CONTENTS

New Hampshire Roll.
1,578
Phinehas Douglass, Capt Brown Private. 4
Massachusetts line In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30. of June 1818. and sent to L. Woodbury, Esq. Frances town, N. Hamp.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Service ending
5 months 4/30. $41.06
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
3 years
Continued
Hollis Street through 60 us H
Verification sent Oct r 26 th 1820 to Joseph Darling Esq. Amherst, N. Hamp.

45768 Rev  INVALID.
File No. 45768 Phineas Douglass Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 132
[Arrangement of 1870.]

746
Phinehas Douglass
1378
Sept 1848

Hillsborough
ss.] STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
ON this eighteenth day of August A. D. 18 20 personally appeared
before J. H. Smith Esq. one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the said county of Hillsborough being a Court of Record, in and for the said county, having the power of fine and imprisonment, Phinehas Douglass aged eighty three years, resident in Heckerstown in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: viz. That in March A.D. 1777 he enlisted for three years and served in Capt Benjamin Brown's Company in Colo. Melchior Jackson's Regt. in the Massachusetts line from that time till the end of three years, about one year of the last of the time he was among the invalids at Boston Mps. when he was honorably discharged
The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the 1 st day of April 1818 The number of my pension certificate is 1378 I have received a Pension. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. My occupation is a labourer I am not of sufficient ability to pursue it or perform any labour being supported by public charity
in family residing with me I have none but live in a family who provides for me Phinehas X Douglass mark J. H. Smith Ben M. Farley Their capacity to contribute to their support.
Sworn to and declared before J. H. Smith one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas day of Augt 18 th A. D. 18 20 in said County, on the before J. H. Smith one of the judges of the court of common Pleas for said county of Hillsborough Judge of the said Court.
I Enoch Darling Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Hillsborough, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property in the aforesaid schedule, is nothing dollars and cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 20 th day of September A. D. 18 20 E. Darling } Clerk of the said Court.
1820

SCHEDULE, CONTAINING the whole estate and income of Phinehas Douglass (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) by him subscrib- ed, exhibited to the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Hillsborough in the State of New-Hampshire, on the seventh day of September 18 20 , and annexed to his oath, viz.
as follows viz
Real Estate ————— none Personal Estate ————— none
Just J. H. Smith Ben M. Farley
Phinehas Douglass mark

I, Phinehas Douglass of Hollis in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire and formerly of Pepperell in the County of Middlesex & State of Massachusetts, Husbandman, depose, that in March A. D. 1776 — I enlisted as a Private Soldier into a company, commanded by Capt. Benj. Varnum in the Regiment commanded by Col. M. Jackson, in the Massachusetts Line in the Continental Service; and that I continued to serve there against the common enemy till March A. D. 1779 when my time of service ceased and I was discharged —
I further depose, that I have never received any pension from the United States — and am now eighty years old and very infirm. I am wholly destitute of property, having been mostly maintained of late by charity — and therefore need assistance from my country for support —
April 20. 1818
Phinehas his \ Douglass mark
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss. April, 1. 1818. Then personally appearing the above Phinehas Douglass made oath to the truth of the above declaration — Before me by me subscribed by his mark — Saml Woodbury As. Jud. Sup. Ct. (N. H.)

Phinehas Douglas (Halls)
State of New Hampshire Hillsborough ss. April, 1. 1810.
I hereby certify that the within declarations of Phinehas Douglas & Amos Eastman & C. Page Fairly subscribed & sworn to before me have fully satisfied me that the within Phinehas Douglas served against the common enemy during our Revolutionary War in the Massachusetts Line, in the Continental Service as a Private Soldier longer than nine months at one period; and if proper to add that from his reduced circumstances he needs assistance from his country for support -
Levi Woodbury, Atty. for Supp. Ch. (Mrs. H.)

We, Christopher P. Farley and Amos Eastman - both of Hollis in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, Gentlemen, do severally depose, that we have been some years acquainted with Phinehas Douglass of said Hollis; that he is very old and infirm; & that he is wholly destitute of property and needs assistance from his country for subsistence -
We further depose, that said Douglass is a man of truth and veracity and now competent to testify and well acquainted with the obligation of an oath -
April 1st. 1848
Amos Eastman C. Page Farley
State of New Hampshire. Hillsborough ss. April, 1, 1848. Then personally appearing the above Christopher P. Farley and Amos Eastman severally made oath to the truth of the above declaration by them subscribed Before me Saml Woodbury As. Secy Sup. Ct. (N. H.)